Horn, or The Counterside of Media

Henning Schmidgen

Published by Duke University Press 2022

Horn, or The Counterside of Media

Henning Schmidgen
Translated by: Nils F. Schott

In the series Sign, Storage, Transmission

https://doi.org/10.1515/9781478022343

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About this book

Henning Schmidgen reflects on the dynamic phenomena of touch in media, analyzing works by artists, scientists, and philosophers ranging from Salvador Dalí to Walter Benjamin, who each explore the interplay between tactility and technological and biological surfaces.

Author / Editor information

Henning Schmidgen is Professor of Media Studies at Bauhaus-Universität Weimar and author of Bruno Latour in Pieces: An Intellectual Biography and The Helmholtz Curves: Tracing Lost Time.

Reviews

"As a scholar of touch and technology but not, it must be said, of media, I was rarely surprised by the historical content or media examples. I was, however, consistently delighted by the deft argumentation, the rather bricolage- like assembly of themes and motifs, and the unexpected but convincing serendipities that connect them across the different media and their practitioners. . . . For the scholar interested in media and technology, this book serves as an entertaining crash course or manifesto in the history of tactile media."

-- Mark Paterson Technology and Culture

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
CONTENTS Publicly Available Download PDF	v
PREFACE Publicly Available Download PDF	vii
Introduction Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
ONE The Captured Unicorn Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	13
TWO Impressions of Modernity Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	49
THREE Rhinoceros Cybernetics Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	88
FOUR A Surface Medium Par Excellence Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	148
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Language: English
Publisher: Duke University Press
Audience: Professional and scholarly;
Pages
- Main content: 320

eBook

Published: November 22, 2021
ISBN: 9781478022343